Mornin' all. So that thing I mentioned about Murphy's Law... yep. You're looking at the result of it. I encountered numerous FTP and template saving problems in moving this site over, and now as a result, I'm stuck with this generic template. Once I figure out what's going on, this should return to it's normal look. While we all eagerly await that moment, go download Spacehog's "In the Meantime".

posted by George at 11:36 AM       Comments (0)

Hullo hullo... and Goodbye goodbye (to SHITTY Telus web hosting, that is!) as I prepare to move this lame account of my daily life over to www.agnosticmonkey.com. This should theoretically be my last post here, notwithstanding Murphy's Law. Thought I'd leave you with a line from Irvine Welsh' PORNO (sequel to Trainspotting, for those in the dark).
"It's always nice to leave somebody when they say they'd like to see you again, because there will inevitably come a time when you leave them because they don't want to see you again."
My parting with Telus is most definitely the latter case. See you over at THE MONKEY. I'll brief you on my new assignment, new co-workers (which include... queue drum roll.... YOUNG PEOPLE!!!! HURRAY!), and my sweet new transformers toy from Mickey D's.

posted by George at 5:56 PM       Comments (0)

I was sitting in the last day of my project management training course and contemplated the fate of this site. (what? you thought I'd actually pay attention to the course?). I came up with another couple potential domain names in hmsmach.com and gdmexpress.com. But those were just too boring, so I settled on agnosticmonkey.com.
For the benefit of the diction challenged:

ag·nos·tic
n.

1.One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
2.One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
3.One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.

So my new site should be up and running in about a day or so. Until then... go download Tenacious D's "Tribute" and rock out!

posted by George at 11:51 PM       Comments (0)

I'm thinking of hosting this web site at my own domain instead of using Telus (which, btw, is the biggest piece of crap telecommunications service provider on the face of the earth - yes, even Sprint, who at one point sunk so low as to get Murphy Brown to advertise for them, is BETTER than the well oiled machine known as Telus). Heck, while I'm on this wavelength, let me give you an example of why. I switched my long distance carrier to London Telecom just to spite stupid Telus. So Telus calls me two days later, and invites me back to use their superior services. Uh huh... London Tel is offering me unlimited evenings/weekends for 21.95. So the Telus guy informs me that their $23.95 package for 1000 minutes evening/weekends is better. Now I'm no math whiz, but my calculator is screaming TELUS IS RETARDED.

Anyways, back to my original blurb of signing up for my own domain name. I was thinking either www.riceprincessG.com or www.pilldicklexpress.com. Or perhaps www.telusisshit.com if the previous two were taken. (I was gonna post a doodle I did while in my training course today, but I can't upload it because the Telus server is down...)

posted by George at 11:36 PM       Comments (0)

Two posts on a tuesday night? GASP! Can it be?

Welcome to the personals section of my imaginary web-paper. Readership <10 (+/- 5). So tonight's featured gal is Sue, otherwise affectionately known as Man. Sue is a smart sarcastic gal from Cali that likes men with big black rimmed plastic glasses with tape over the bridge of the nose who don't mind being on the losing end of a beating in a friendly bout of Scrabble. Sound like your kind of woman? Thought so. We'll start bidding at 50 dollars...

posted by George at 12:53 AM       Comments (0)

Who reads German? Feel free to translate this for me if you've got a few seconds, which you obviously have if you're reading this shite. Please email RICE PRINCESS G with the tranlsation. I could just as easily plug the text into an online translator, but damn am I lazy...


This is the message you get after you beat this game and figure out how to sign the guestbook. You should check it out, unless you're easily irritated, at which point I'd suggest you stay away from this or you'll be angrily punching holes in your walls in no time.
Flash Game (brain required)

posted by George at 11:43 PM       Comments (0)

So my mentor told me that one of our co-workers recently bought a Dr. Ho's electro workout thingy for like 200 some bucks. And my first thought was, how retarded is that? You'd probably get the same effect from licking batteries...

posted by George at 11:17 PM       Comments (0)

Megs bought me a "FunPad: Packed with things to Do!" And damn is it awesome! I broke out my Prismacolour pencil crayons, and voila! I am SUCH an artiste...
 
Good to know my 4 years of University paid off. Now I've got one monster craving for some Pho... an artiste has to eat too you know.

posted by George at 4:00 PM       Comments (0)

Any David Lynch fans out there? Well I've never seen any of his stuff before, until now. And I'm still undecided on whether I like it or not. I just watched Muholland Drive tonight, and all I can say is: WTF?!! It's got two solid hours of dark atmosphere, mystery, and even some steamy girl girl action, but then completely changes gears at the 2 hour mark and starts on a completely different plot. I mean, the lesbian scenes are TOP NOTCH, but I dunno if that justifies having to sit through this rollercoaster of a plot (not especially with a chapter search option on DVD : ) He leaves more loose ends in the film than Chris Carter did in the entire run of the X-files. From what I've read, this is typical Lynch fare. Being the unbiased bastard that I am, I'm gonna give Lynch another chance (probably watch The Lost Highway) before I judge whether he's truly a film genius or if he just smokes too much crack... to be continued...

if you want to see some of the arguments for and against this movie, read these reviews.

posted by George at 3:11 AM       Comments (0)